From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17999 invoked by alias); 9 May 2014 07:24:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12631 invoked by uid 89); 9 May 2014 02:22:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNSUBSCRIBE_BODY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: qmta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net From: Andrew Schulman To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: socat 1.7.2.4-1, 2.0.0-b7-1 Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 07:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: <70eom95vgrkfov2aso46u90lre54544l7i@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archive: encrypt X-SW-Source: 2014-05/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 Two new versions of socat are available in the Cygwin distribution: 1.7.2.4-1 - current 2.0.0-b7-1 - test These are new upstream releases, that address a security vulnerability (possible buffer overflow) in previous versions. Security advisory:=20 http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv5.txt Upstream changelog: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/CHANGES.=20=20 These versions also add IPv6 support (TCP6, TCP6-LISTEN, UDP6, UDP6-DATAGRAM, ...) for the first time in Cygwin. This feature hasn't been tested much yet, so please test and report any findings (good or bad) here. socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these. These modes include generation of 'listening' sockets, named pipes, and pseudo terminals. socat can be used, e.g., as TCP port forwarder (one-shot or daemon), as an external socksifier, for attacking weak firewalls, as a shell interface to UNIX sockets, IP6 relay, for redirecting TCP oriented programs to a serial line, to logically connect serial lines on different computers, or to establish a relatively secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell scripts with network connections. Andrew E. Schulman ******************************************************************* To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=3Dyourdomain.com_at_cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here:=20 http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.